Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katie Couric

I think that good programming serves us all well. It gives people more choices. It makes us all try harder. And the competitive juices start flowing.

Maria Shriver

I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. And I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.

Katie Couric

I think you get to know the people on the shows better than you do in any other format, because the audience sees us in so many different situations.

Maria Bartiromo

I was a Girl Scout and I loved being a Girl Scout. I learned so much as a Girl Scout and I used to sell cookies and it was really fun.

Dick Schaap

There is never going to be another Ali.

Sally Quinn

We've been together 32 years and married for 27.

Larry Elder

Under Ronald Reagan - who cut the top tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent - black income, business development and business growth exploded.

Brit Hume

I think we have a wide variety of voices, and if you look at our news coverage day in and day out, I think it's down the middle and fair.

Jim McKay

I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.

Nina Blackwood

I think because we were there when it was a very knew and different form of television, we are forever going to be linked with MTV and video music.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.

Jerry Pournelle

Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.

Robert Trout

Having denied that human nature is creative reason, Jefferson saw society and economics as based on fundamentally fixed relationships.

James Reston

If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.

Bob Edwards

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

Ed Bradley

I worked to save up enough money to pay off my bills and have enough money to live for a little while, and then I moved to Paris.

Frank Rich

I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.

Neil Cavuto

If we're so convinced times will get tougher, why is mall traffic up? Why are car sales still strong? Why are home sales still chugging along?

Jeff Greenfield

I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.

Jeff Greenfield

I got into television because I hated it so. And I thought... there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.

Gamaliel Bailey

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

George Plimpton

He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Jim McKay

There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever.

Susan Estrich

There are a lot of guys on both campaigns, on all the campaigns now, who do some very questionable lobbying on behalf of very questionable interests and do things that trouble me a whole lot more than a woman writing a book about masturbation.

Diane Sawyer

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

Heywood Broun

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Heywood Broun

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.

Heywood Broun

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

Heywood Broun

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.

Dick Schaap

Today, it's money. There's no question about that. Unless you endorse a grill that cooks hamburgers and steaks, where else can you make the kind of money that you can make in the ring if you're good?

Dick Schaap

I just can't believe all the things I did that decade.

Dick Schaap

I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.